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declasse

[dey-kla-sey, -klah-, dey-klah-sey] / ˌdeɪ klæˈseɪ, -klɑ-, deɪ klɑˈseɪ /


déclassé


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It’s declasse and too far from where I live.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2024

Even peddling products on the home screen is not as declasse as it once was.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the white Rude Boy lashes out in Eminem's self-described "white trash" anger or embraces, while deprecating, his declasse alpha-maledom.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only faintly promising news concerns writing courses, once considered dreary and even declasse assignments.

From Time Magazine Archive

The woman in business was such a novelty that as yet she was declasse.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

By elevating quotidian subject matter to a sublime frenzy of saturated hues, he established color photography as an art form during the 1960s and ’70s, when it had been dismissed as déclassé.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

How a cut once deemed déclassé is now at the forefront of chicness.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2023

This general variety of business has often been viewed as déclassé, the province of fast-talking hustlers.

From New York Times Feb. 1, 2023

Then again, the reason everyone likes them is because regardless of how loud or déclassé their behavior is, they're deferential and sweet to the family elders.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2021

There was a very hard-boiled egg, a box of sardines, a dish of terribly déclassé potatoes, and a cup of tea.

From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia




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